Taking Note
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Worse Than Infamy "HEADQUARTERS FOR DESTRUCTION: The Behindthe-scenes story of the diabolical North American Congress on Latin America" A 1972 pamphlet published by The Church League of...
...And most recently, while the Contragate hearings revealed much we did not know, we were glad to find that the alternative press had been doing its job...
...His answer was, 'If you want to know how the U.S...
...We've been proud to quote him in our publicity over the years...
...and production costs are up by 17...
...I suspect that the answer lies in the reasons which have made Report on the Americas the country's most widely read periodical covering Latin America and the Caribbean...
...Worse Than Infamy "HEADQUARTERS FOR DESTRUCTION: The Behindthe-scenes story of the diabolical North American Congress on Latin America" A 1972 pamphlet published by The Church League of America The influence of NACLA clearly reaches within the White House itself...
...We hope you agree, and with us will do what you can to ensure NACLA's survival...
...NACLA's task is to shed light'on reality," Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano told us last year as we celebrated our 20th anniversary...
...intervention . . . is early warning information, full, fast, accurate...
...Consequently, we've been working with a skeleton crew, seriously straining institutional and personal resources...
...The best chance we have for such information is NACLA's Report on the Americas...
...Everyone was asking, what do you mean by U.S...
...Further, we're finding that our $16,000 yearly wage is no longer realistic in today's New York City...
...In preparation for drafting the testimony, a colleague and I reviewed a bulging file of right-wing attacks...
...Nearly six months prior to revelations in the major media, our "Sowing Dragon's Teeth: The U.S...
...Last winter I discovered just how proud...
...has affected Chile, just read New Chile by NACLA.' " Volk, who fled Santiago shortly after the coup, was part of a Report team that documented the role of ITT and the CIA long before the Church Committee did its important work...
...What the file revealed and what I ended up telling Congress is that "through the years, it is not exaggeration to say that we became an obsession to the Right...
...Our 1974 book, Guatemala, by Susanne Jonas and David Tobis, has remained a classic and, as we took great pleasure in pointing out, "even the CIA ordered four copies...
...And now, as we face the possibility of ceasing publication, I think back to the many "early warnings" the Report has provided...
...Over the last few years we have reduced the number of Report pages and cut expenses through staff attrition...
...This loyalty is what has kept NACLA alive these 21 years while so many around us have succumbed...
...In 1970 we had 1,400 subscribers...
...our 1988 rent is 10% higher...
...And in a study that proved controversial for years, Sara Miles' introduction to low intensity conflict provoked serious re-examination in solidarity as well as academic circles...
...War Against Nicaragua" warned of a "U.S...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1973 SOME ARE KNOWN TO WEAR ATTACKS BY the Right like medals of honor...
...In fact, NACLA's interest in Nicaragua was such that a year earlier Ronald Reagan himself charged us with "targeting" and "destabilizing" the Somoza regime...
...screamed the Church League pamphlet...
...Yet we now face the unhappy truth that our current level of support is not enough to continue publishing...
...Longtime staffer Steven Volk, who serves on our board of directors, proudly recalls a December 1972 speech by Allende at the United Nations...
...He did not hesitate to tell us, "If we let NACLA die, we would be committing something worse than infamy: we would be committing an unpardonable act of stupidity...
...The Washington Lobby on Latin America NACLA literature is voluminous and is published regularly in a quality format that indicates financial stability...
...Today we print 11,500 copies of the magazine...
...Bulk rate postage is up 25...
...Allende held a press conference afterwards...
...In the early 1970s NACLA exposed the destabilization of Salvador Allende's socialist government as it was happening...
...imperialism, what's all this about...
...HROUGHOUT THESE NINE YEARS OF CRISIS in Central America, NACLA has continued to publish probing analysis...
...We must secure $98,000 in the next few weeks or NACLA will fold...
...As one of some 60 organizations-now 96-victimized by burglaries, we had been invited to testify before a House subcommittee looking into the matter...
...The file makes for entertaining reading, but more importantly raises a question that is very much on my mind as I sit down to write what may be my last "Taking Note": Why do we bother them so much...
...Allan Naim's 1984 "Endgame" provided fresh insight into military thinking on the region...
...NACLA is a dangerous organization...
...The sad reality is that the costs of doing what we do in 1988 are far greater than even we anticipated...
...But Central America perhaps best illustrates what readers have come to expect of NACLA...
...If that's the case, NACLA has ample reason to be proud...
...General accuracy is difficult to assess because of the volume factor and the sophisticated topical content, however, random samplings indicate a degree of accuracy of approximately 80...
...ORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL RAMSEY Clark once remarked that "the best chance we have to prevent U.S...
...A longtime NACLA friend, we called him last week at his home in Montevideo to tell him of our current difficulties...
...And in resounding endorsement, you our readers donate one-third of the funds needed to keep the organization running...
...foreign policy run by franchise...
...marked the beginning of an ongoing focus on a country sure to be at centerstage in the 1990s...
...Now we've set our sights on Panama...
...We were regularly referred to as "the intelligence arm of the New Left," "pro-Castro," or "Castroite...
...Our last Report, "Mexico: Whose Crisis, Whose Future...
...In 1978-before dictator Anastasio Somoza fled Nicaragua-we published a study of the forces pushing for change...
Vol. 22 • January 1988 • No. 1
